Washington State declares transgender war against parents
Quin Hillyer
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Washington, on April 12, passed a bill regarding children’s gender transitions that borders on unadulterated evil. It must not stand.
Essentially, the bill allows licensed youth shelters to harbor a child against parents’ wishes while proceeding with sex-change procedures or abortions. Put another way, not only will parents have no say in the life-altering decision of girls and boys to defy their biological gender (or to kill a human life), but the children can be kept away from their parents and homes.
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Note well: This is not meant to be a rare escape hatch for cases meeting the legal definition of parental abuse or neglect. Instead, it treats the mere possibility of parental opposition to “gender transition” as the very equivalent of abuse. The automatic assumption is in favor of the gender transition at least temporarily desired by a child or adolescent — age groups not necessarily known for wisdom or for consistency of emotions — and against consultation with parents.
And, again, all of this is to be done while the child is kept from living with her own parents, unless and until state bureaucrats decide the parents merit “reunification.”
Ignore all the gibberish offered by bill sponsors saying that “until the day all kids are accepted, we need to provide loving and supporting places so we can all reach our potential we were given at birth” — no mention, by the way, of actual sex that is scientifically inarguable at birth — or saying “that I see you, that I affirm you, that I hear you, that I love you,” in the words of state Rep. Tana Senn.
Who do these legislators think they are, to put their supposed “love” for unknown children ahead of the natural love parents have for their own? The unmitigated gall is outlandish.
Let’s get some things straight. Yes, government, in its protective role, has a responsibility to protect children from abuse, neglect, or unalterably life-changing decisions. But by all standards of reason and decency, that responsibility outweighs parental prerogatives only, repeat only, in extremist.
By all reason, decency, and respect for human nature, the assumption should be, must be, that parents have their children’s best interests at heart and in mind. Yes, parental good judgment is a presumption that is refutable, but the burden of proof must be on the state to prove parental malfeasance or incapacity. To write into law the presumption that the parents cannot be trusted — which, essentially, is what this bill does — is an abomination.
State Senate Republican Leader John Braun put it well, saying the bill would “cause harm by driving a wedge between vulnerable kids and their parents, at a time when a teen lacks the perception and judgment to make critical life-altering decisions.” Well, exactly. And that’s an understatement.
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To repeat, and to put it plainly, this bill is not just wrong; it is in the realm of evil. When the government, without a shred of evidence of parental abuse or incapacity, blocks parents from contact with emotionally conflicted children, while helping the children get “treatment” to change their very identities, that government has become a totalitarian menace.
It is a totalitarianism that must never be allowed to take hold in these United States.